Line up date/time column in balloon display
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#2 Line up date/time column in balloon display
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2016-03-28
2010-01-19
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Currently the display appears staggered:
UK 5:18 PM
Amsterdam 6:18 PM
Most Swing components will accept snippets of HTML code for formatting which would be a simple way to get nicely aligned columns (and possibly other formatting). Try building a string like:
StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder();
sb.append("<html><body><table>")
for each item {
sb.append("<tr><td>"+displayName[i]+"</td><td>"+formattedTime[i]+"</td></tr>")
}
sb.append("</table></body></html>")
I've looked at this and feel that the solution is not that simple. To cater for RTL languages and other choices of layout (see below), a new and more sophisticated layout mechanism is required (and is currently in the works).
The problem is this: If I want the layout
Sydney 10:30 AM
Rome -8:30 PM
with the timezones left aligned in a single column and the different day indicator and time in a single column (also left aligned), the software has no idea of the user's intention. That is, the software cannot know (currently) when to make a new column (or when to combine two or more groups of data).
Addressed in release 1.5
As per the release notes for 1.5: HTML formatting is NOT rendered in the tooltip/bubble text and so only the Show Date/Time can be nicely formatted.
Very nice little piece of software. However, I also disliked the staggered view, but found a workaround:
Use e.g. Notepad to copy a tab character to the clipboard, then paste it to the message layout configuration menu (typically between "time zone" and "different day indicator".
That's it! See the attached screenshot for a preview.